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The rise of an African middle class : colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965 / Michael O. West.
Van Pelt Library HT690.Z55 W46 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- West, Michael O. (Michael Oliver)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle class--Zimbabwe--History.
- Middle class.
- Colonial influence.
- History.
- Zimbabwe--Colonial influence.
- Zimbabwe.
- Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1890-1965.
- Politics and government.
- Zimbabwe--History--1890-1965.
- Zimbabwe--Social conditions--1890-1965.
- Local Subjects:
- Zimbabwe--History--1890-1965.
- Zimbabwe--Social conditions--1890-1965.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 324 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Tracing their quest for social recognition from the time of Cecil Rhodes to Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence, Michael O. West shows how some Africans were able to avail themselves of scarce educational and social opportunities in order to achieve some degree of upward mobility in a society that was hostile to their ambitions. Though relatively few in number and not rich by colonial standards, this comparatively better class of Africans challenged individual and social barriers imposed by colonialism to become the locus of protest against European domination. This extensive and original book opens new perspective into relations between colonizers and colonized in colonial Zimbabwe.
- Contents:
- Running against the wind : African social mobility and identity in a settler colonial society
- Courting "Miss Education" : the love affair with social mobility
- The quest for bourgeois domesticity : on homemakers and households
- The best of all homes : housing and security of tenure
- A new beginning : the roots of African politics, 1914-1933
- Found and lost : toward an African political consensus, 1934-1948
- Back toward the beginning : the pursuit of racial partnership, 1949-1958
- An aborted coronation : in search of the political kingdom, 1955-1965.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253340853
- 0253215242
- OCLC:
- 48655898
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